Italian–English dictionary

inesistenza

The state of not existing.

inesorabile

Impossible to prevent or stop; inevitable. [from mid 16th c.]

inesorabilmente

In an inexorable manner; without the possibility of stopping or prevention.

inesperto

Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.

inesplicabile

Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.

inesplicato

Not explained; of unknown cause or origin.

inespressivo

Deliberately impassive or expressionless.

inesprimibile

Unable to be expressed; not able to be put into words.

inespugnabile

(military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.

inestimabile

(obsolete) Not valuable; valueless; worthless.

inestricabile

(of a knot etc) Impossible to untie or disentangle.

inettitudine

A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy.

inetto

Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.

inevitabile

Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

inevitabilmente

In a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent.

inezia

A trifle; an insubstantial thing.

infallibile

Without fault; free from defect or error.

infamare

(transitive) To disgrace, or bring shame upon.

infame

Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.

infamia

The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.

infando

Incapable of being articulated or expressed; indescribable, inexpressible.

infangare

(transitive) To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).

infante

A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

infantile

Immature in thought or behaviour.

infanzia

The state or period of infancy.

infarcire

To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.

infarinare

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

infarinatura

A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.

infarto

(pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.

infastidire

(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

infastidirsi

(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

infaticabile

Extremely persistent and untiring.

infatti

(modal) Truly; in fact; actually.

infatuato

In love.

infatuazione

(obsolete) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; madness.

infausto

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

infelice

Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

infelicità

(uncountable) unhappiness, woe

inferenza

(uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

inferi

(religion, or, mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

inferiore

A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.

inferiorità

The quality or state of being inferior.

inferiorità numerica

In a shorthanded manner.

inferire

(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. [from 16th c.]

infermeria

A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse.

infermiera

A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:

infermiere

A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:

infernale

(hyperbolic) causing great pain, discomfort or distress

inferno

(countable, hyperbole, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.

inferno di fiamme

A large fire; a conflagration.

inferriata

A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.

infertile

(of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.

infestare

(transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

infestazione

The presence of a large number of pest organisms in an area or field, on the surface of a host or anything that might contact a host, or in the soil.

infettare

(transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.

infettarsi

(intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.

infettivo

(pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).

infetto

Having an infection.

infiammabile

Inflammable or easily ignited.

infiammare

To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.

infiammato

(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.

infiammatorio

Relating to, causing, or caused by inflammation.

infiammazione

(pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.

infido

Exhibiting treachery.

infierire

To beat mercilessly.

infiggere

(transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.

infilare

(transitive) To achieve something.

infiltrato

(espionage) An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.

infiltratore

One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.

infiltrazione

The act of secretly entering a physical location and/or organization.

infilzare

To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.

infine

Completely, as much as possible; in full; to the end or full extent.

infingardamente

In a lazy manner.

infingardo

Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.

infinitamente

In an endless manner; continuously without limit.

infinito

Having no end.

infiocchettare

(transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

infiorare

To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.

infiorescenza

(botany) A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

infiorescenza a spiga

(botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.

infittire

(transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).

infittirsi

(intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).

inflessibile

Inflexible or without exception.

inflessibilità

The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness

inflessione

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

infliggere

(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. [from 16th c.]

infliggere il supplizio di tantalo

To tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach.

inflizione

The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition.

inflorescenza

(botany) A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

influente

Having or exerting influence.

influenza

(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.

influenzare

(transitive) To influence or alter.

influire

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

influsso

The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.

infocato

Having the colour of fire.

infognarsi

(transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.

infoiato

(slang) Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.

infondato

Without any grounds to support it; baseless.

inforcare

(transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).

informale

(of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.

informalmente

In an irregular or informal manner; without the usual forms.

informare

(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.

informatica

The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.

informatico

One who studies or practises computer science.

informativo

Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.

informato

Informed; aware.

informatore

(countable, slang) A police informant.

informazione

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]

infornare

(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

infornata

The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

infradiciare

To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic) , to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.

infradito

(usually, in the plural, Australia) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.

infrangere

(transitive) To break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.

infrangersi

(intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water. A wave breaking.

infrangibile

Difficult or impossible to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.

infrarosso

Having a wavelength in the infrared spectrum.

infrasettimanale

That happens in the middle of the week.

infrastruttura

(figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.

infrazione

(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.

infrequente

Not frequent; not happening frequently.

infronzolare

To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.

infruttifero

(of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.

infruttuoso

(figuratively) Unproductive, useless.

infuriare

(transitive) To make angry.

ingabbiare

(transitive) To put into a hamper.

ingaggiare

(rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.

ingaggio

(military, historical) Money paid to a person when becoming a member of the armed forces, or as a reward for some service therein.

ingannare

(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert [from around 1350 to 1470.]

ingannatore

A person who uses confidence tricks to defraud or swindle people after first gaining their trust with a series of confidence games; a scam operator, confidence trickster.

ingannatrice

A person who lies or deceives.

ingannevole

(obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

ingannevolmente

In a deceptive manner; misleadingly.

inganno

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

ingarbugliare

(transitive) To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.

ingegnera

Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally) , a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.

ingegnere

Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally) , a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.

ingegno

The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.

ingegnosità

The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.

ingegnoso

(of objects or actions) Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.

ingenuo

Free from guile; honest but naive.

ingerire

(transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.

ingessare

(medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

ingessato

(figuratively) Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements.

ingessatura

A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

ingestibile

Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed.

ingestione

The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.

Inghilterra

(historical) The territory of the Angles and (later) Anglo-Saxons in Britain at any given time before the founding of the Kingdom of England, or the territory of the English people at any given time, in either the Kingdom of England or the United Kingdom.

inghiottimento

The act of swallowing.

inghiottire

(transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.

ingiallire

(intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.